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	weechat's weechat relay plugin
	Saturday Jan 18 3:11:44 2014

	Weechat supports two different relay protocols: 'irc' and 'weechat'
	I know that the names 'irc' and 'weechat' sound a bit confusing
	because they both refer to an internet protocol and an irc program
	and also to the names of two protocols which are specific to an irc
	program, weechat in this case. But I hope I can make it clear :)

	Last year I wrote a phlog post on how to use the 'irc' one (which c
	be used with almost any irc client). And today I will explain how t
	use weechat's weechat relay plugin (which is easier to setup but ha
	the disadvantage that you can only connect to it with a client that
	supports it (for example weechat itself, QWeeChat or weechat-androi

	You can also read the full tutorial that I added to sdfeu's website

	Weechat tutorial

	Let us start from scratch. To begin with, start weechat-curses,
	connect to your networks/servers and join your favourite channels.

	In order to use the 'weechat' protocol on sdfeu you only need one
	single port which is your uid number. Type 'id' at the shell and yo
	will see something similar to this:

	odin:~$ id
	uid=007(bond) gid=500(arpa) groups=500(arpa),600(MetaARPA),700(dba)

	Only the "uid" part is relevant here, "uid=007(bond)" which means
	that "007" is the "port" and "bond" is the "username". Let's now
	assume that user "bond" wants to use the password "james_bond" (Thi
	way, you will understand the examples better).

	- Inside weechat:

	* First add the relay

	/relay add weechat port

	Example: /relay add weechat 007

	* Set the password

	/set relay.network.password "password"

	Example: /set relay.network.password "james_bond"

	- On the client side:

	Now, simply connect from your client to sdfeu.org using your port a
	your password. Your client will connect to the client running on sd
	and connect to all the networks and channels and besides, it will
	retrieve the backlog.

	Nifty!